Glöwen – Havelberg railway line
| Glöwen – Havelberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard gauge track (1890-1947) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 110n (1944) , 100c (1936) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 9.24 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Narrow gauge line (1948–1971) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 804 (DR) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 9.30 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 750 mm ( narrow gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 10 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 290 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Glöwen – Havelberg railway was a railway line in Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt . It led from Glöwen to Havelberg .
history
Even when the Berlin-Hamburg railway was being planned in the first half of the 19th century, Havelberg was striving for a railway connection, but the route later ran far from the city. Only with the construction of the Glöwen – Havelberg branch line did the city get a rail connection. The line was opened on February 15, 1890 as a standard gauge line by the Prussian State Railways . Intermediate stations were created in Nitzow and Toppel , an initially planned extension of the route to the south was no longer implemented.
During the Second World War , a connecting line to an ammunition store with military production facilities was built north of Nitzow. After the Second World War , the railway line was dismantled in autumn 1947 as a reparation payment . In the end there were five pairs of passenger trains daily, which led the 2nd and 3rd class.
In order to reconnect the small town of Havelberg to the rail network, the VVB Landesbahnen Brandenburg decided to rebuild the section. On September 3, 1948, the line was reopened as a 750 mm narrow-gauge railway . The superstructure of the narrow-gauge railway came from the narrow-gauge railway Kreuzweg – Viesecke , which was dismantled especially for this purpose, and the Dahme – Görsdorf section of the former Jüterbog-Luckenwalder Kreiskleinbahnen . On April 5, 1971, the Deutsche Reichsbahn stopped freight traffic on the route, while it continued to travel to September 26, 1971. The line was then shut down and dismantled.
Although the narrow-gauge railway Glöwen – Kreuzweg had the same gauge, there was no track connection to the Glöwen – Havelberg line at Glöwen station ; the standard-gauge Berlin-Hamburg railway lay in between. The vehicle was exchanged using standard-gauge transport vehicles. A separate trolley pit had to be built and a ramp for loading the trolleys.
When operations started in 1948, the Deutsche Reichsbahn locomotive 99 791 (first line), designated from 1957 as 99 4712 , was also brand new, the later 99 1401 . The Deutsche Reichsbahn swapped both locomotives for weaker locomotives of the DR class 99.450 after taking over operations . But 99 4511 and 99 4701 to Havelberg were also used.
literature
- Wolf-Dietger Machel : An unknown railway construction company in Westprignitz / From the history of F. & I. Heinke. In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter , 35th volume, issue 1 (January / February 2008), pp. 1–10, issue 2 (March / April 2008), pp. 44–47.
- Ludger Kenning: Small train journey through the Prignitz , Verlag Kenning, Nordhorn 2013, ISBN 978-3-933613-60-8
- Klaus Kieper, Reiner Preuß: Narrow Gauge Railway Archive . transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1980, p. 160
also under the title:
- Klaus Kieper, Reiner Preuß: Narrow gauge between the Baltic Sea and the Ore Mountains , Alba Buchverlag, Düsseldorf 1980. ISBN 3-87094-069-7 , p. 160
Web links
- www.stilllege.de Route inspection with numerous photos
Individual evidence
- ↑ Small train journey through the Prignitz , p. 181